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The Fiber-Optic Umbilical: Pay-TV Companies Want You to Forget About All That Internet Media Nonsense

PBS Offers Guide to Cord-Cutting and Defense of Piracy

You want to cut the cable cord, but you aren't clear on how to go about it. You aren't much of a gadget geek, you don't regularly follow tech news, and -- while you might have a Netflix account -- you might not know much about the other alternatives and how they compare: Hulu, Blockbuster, Amazon Pr ... More >>

Hula into the Future

Viacom's Insane Move to Yank Shows From The Web

Viacom's decision to yank its programming from the Web last week as a tactic in its dispute with DirecTV was absolutely insane. The last people to realize this fact were Viacom's executives. As of Tuesday, the company had restored The Daily Show and The Colbert Report. Since it's the middle of summe ... More >>

BitTorrent Is Suing a German Company for Pirating Its Trademark

Remember that episode of The Wire when Avon Barksdale filled out a police report after Omar jacked his stash?No? You're right, that never happened.But this is happening.BitTorrent, the California-based file sharing website that allows people to download pirated movies and music, is suing a German co ... More >>

Jeff Mangum is Vegan, Milk Ads are Hilarious(ly Bad), & 20 Best Vegan Dishes in the Mission!?

​• The awesome Compassion Over Killing launched ads on Hulu this week and they're being very well received! I love the idea of people sitting down to watch Paula Deen tap dance on a dead pig or whatever she does and then BAM! Here's the real deal! Love it -- give COK all your money so they can k ... More >>

SF Weekly Cover Causes Fraternal Distress on Parenthood

Like a good Boss Hogg scheme or the possibility of an attic bedroom, SF Weekly turned TV siblings against each other last night. Over on NBC's Parenthood, which is set in the East Bay and is more about parenting than the 'hood, entrepreneurial brothers Adam and Crosby found all their old-time jeal ... More >>

MySpace Says It's Bringing TV to the Web -- But It Isn't

​Specific Media, now the owners of MySpace, took Justin Timberlake on stage with them Monday night at the Consumer Electronic Show, and with a lot of fanfare, they announced ... essentially nothing. The purported big news is that MySpace is revolutionizing television by bringing it to the Web an ... More >>

Barnes & Noble Takes on Amazon in Tablet Wars

​A quick scan of this New York Times blog post is all one needs to conclude that Barnes & Noble faces a major challenge against Amazon in the tablet wars. Start with the picture, depicting B&N CEO William Lynch standing in front of a giant graphic showing that the Kindle Fire looks bet ... More >>

Clash of the Traditions

Netflix Saga: Fight for Your Right to Cheap Video Rentals

​Americans have collectively developed a keen sense of entitlement. That's why so many of us think we have a "right" to undeserved pay raises, undeserved good grades in school, free software, free music, low-priced gasoline; that we have a "right" to act like jackasses in traffic or in Internet co ... More >>

Superstar Sightings

Remembering Biggie, Who Died 14 Years Ago Today

Happier times for the whole country​Christopher Wallace, better known to posterity as the Notorious B.I.G., died fourteen years ago today in Los Angeles. (Obligatory S.F. cameo: a few days before, he did a radio interview here on WiLD 107 where he said he'd hired a security detail because he feare ... More >>

Ragazza Boxes It Up, Papalote Savors the Sweet Taste of Victory ― Again

The past 24 hours in gossip, innuendo, and cold hard facts about the San Francisco restaurant scene. You know how old recipe books you don't really cook from anymore become dust collecters on the shelves, or languish, their covers curling, on the floor next to the nightstand? Well, Inside Scoop re ... More >>

Art Review: At "Teen Age" adults help teens expres their angst

In Hometown Show, Brian Jonestown Massacre Evades Expectations

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 @The Fillmore June 21, 2010 Better Than: Watching Dig! on Hulu Last night's sold-out Brian Jonestown Massacre show at The Fillmore was anything but predictable. From beginning to end, the audience either had expectations or made assumption ... More >>

Apartment dweller saves lives after a silent, odorless killer seeps into her building

Foodlebrity-Studded Tasty Awards Show Airs This Weekend

TasteTV​January's inaugural Tasty Awards, created by local online/on-demand food network TasteTV to honor the best food and style programming on television and the Web, will have its broadcast debut. Award recipients, decided by the public as well as by a panel of "tastemakers" (this blogger i ... More >>

The Loneliest Wine Bar

The 10 Creepiest Reality TV Shows of the Decade

As 2009 comes to a close, it's important to remember it all - lest we forget. While other outlets sift through the best and brightest moments of the decade, we here at the SF Weekly would like to pay homage to the most bizarre phenomenon of our time, reality television (as we might have some experie ... More >>

Cathode Love

The Clickable Clit: "Working in a Real Office Makes Cybersex Difficult"

Calling Out Around the World

Veg-Out Vegetarian Guide to San Francisco Bay Area

Love the capsule reviews; wish it didn't skip African joints and pad its pages

Lovely Hula Hands

Island boogie hits S.F.

Talk Is Cheap

"The Hula Show," an evening of Hawaiian story and dance

Blowing in the Winds

Stage

Night + Day

Night+Day